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Dominique Fishback on SwarmPhoto: Quantrell D. Colbert/Prime Video

who is your favorite artist? To the average interlocutor, this may seem like an innocuous question, an easy springboard for friendly banter or excited agreement. But if its Dre, the teen stan at the center of Donald Glover and Janine Nabers new Prime Video series Swarm, asks, the question is not a joke and a wrong answer can be the difference between life and death.

Inspired by Glovers own experience with fans as rapper Childish Gambino, Swarm follows Dre (Judas And The Black MessiahsDominique Fishback), a young woman who lives and breathes almost exclusively for Nijah, a glamorous pop star which Dre thinks just got him. Dre even runs a Twitter account, @nijahhive, dedicated to chronicling the elusive pop star’s brightest moments with glowing captions like Our queen serving!!!

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He’s not like everyone else, Dre says of Nijah in voiceover as he gawks at new music videos, pays nearly $2,000 for concert tickets, and giggles at the idea of ​​touching Nijah’s face. He knew what it was thinking and he gave it a name. She is a goddess.

It doesn’t take much close friend and fellow Nijah lover (Chloe Bailey, in a fun little meta turn) to move away is set up as a pivotal precursor to Dres mental decline for goddess-worship to turn a little satanic. Set to a sadistic flip of The Pixies Where Is My Mind, the trailer follows Dre as he gun-totes, pole dances, and covers up with lots of blood. As Dre continues to show off (in a series of increasingly incredible sequined outfits), it’s unclear whether he wants to be by Nijah’s side or standing in her place.

Swarm premieres on Prime Video on March 17.

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